Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 28

              emergency committee acts on considering report of student opinion makes recommendations on student conduct for week-end prom reads urge economy corsages will be prohibited houseparty is favored when monday feb 16 1942 7 a m to 9 p m where broughal junior high school corner west pack er and brodhead avenues beth lehem pa all college students are ex pected to register in the city in which the college is located who all males born on or before february 17 1897 and on or before december 31 1921 unless previously registered wray h congdon dean of undergraduates wants arcadia action propose 3.30 tickets war wrecks debate topic intramural group to pick question as contest enters 2nd round dent committee's suggestion pro fit from the dance will immediat ely be invested in defense bonds and held in the class treasury said whipple in the past profit obtained from the proms have been used to allay part of the epitome cost of the class sponsoring the affair the prom committee consists ot rogers whipple frank l morgal bus william r taylor arts and robert r shively arts shively has been designated to arrange a program and taylor and morgal to publicity the entire committee will work on selection of the band which probably will not be con tracted until early march chaperones for the affair will be president and mrs clement c williams dean and mrs wray h congdon dr and mrs claude g beardslee and captain and mrs samuel pierce acting in answer to near unan imous student opinion which fav ored the return of the recently abolished spring houseparty the faculty emergency committee on educational policy voted wednes day afternoon to return the annual spring affair to its former status the emergency policy commit tee met at the direction of the faculty which had previously voted to reconsider the committee's original recommendation adopted early last month with the general provisions for the accelerated academic program the committee considered a four-page mimeographed report prepared by a special student com mittee which attempted to report to the faculty group the essence of student opinion on holding the continued on page four frosh to get education plan will produce o'neill play frosh to receive blanks literature this month enrollment limited dramatic workshop plans for 4 ah wilderness is set for mar 21 cyanide junior honorary activ ities society will assist 24 fresh men who enrolled late this semes ter to become acquainted with the university the society met last night in the sigma chi house and planned an organizational meeting of the new freshmen the date of the meeting and freshmen rules will be announced in the near future a list of the freshmen's names and addresses will be published to be used by the fraternities for rushing cynide unanimously agreed with arcadia in that group's opin ion that houseparty should return defense bonds in disfavor cyanide believes that it would be unwise for the profits of the jun ior prom to be invested in de fense savings bonds because the group feels that the profits will be the major source of funds for the rest of the year a great deal of money will be necessary for the publishing of the epitome in regard to corsages and favors for the junior prom david h schaper c.e 43 president an nounced that cyanide does not favor their use the society discussed the var sity l club reviewing the pos sible uses to which that organi zation might be put in the future discussion of the red cross first aid course was followed by gener al approval of its function and purpose losing no time in meeting the faculty emergency committee's requirement that it assume re sponsibility for deciding whether to petition for spring houseparty arcadia student governing body at a special session last night voted to start plans for the annual af fair aradia acted in accordance with the report of the faculty commit tee which on wednesday after noon voted unanimously to restore the unqualified status of spring houseparty april 10 has been set as the night of the annual junior prom robert p whipple ch.e presi dent of the junior class is pre paring to present the usual peti tion for the affair to the dean of undergraduates and wilkes mc clave bus 42 president of ar cadia will confer with the dean as stated in the faculty commit tee's report arcadia acts arcadia's action last night was in accord with a previous motion which it had passed at its regular meeting on monday at this meet ing the body went on record as unanimously favoring the reestab lishment of houseparty six recommendations made by the special student committee re porting to the faculty emergency committee on undergraduate opin ion were approved at the special arcadia meeting last night ar lists recommendations alumni gift goal set at 50,000 continued on page four the junior prom committee will cooperate in every way to make this houseparty a patriotic as well as a social affair said robert p whipple chem presi dent of the junior class and prom committee member last night no corsages will be permitted to be worn on the dance floor this measure is intended to re duce the incidental expenses of the weekend as much as possible there will be one name band and another smaller band con tracted for by the committee in the place of the customary two name bands these measures are in compli ance with the suggestions of the student committee on houseparty which were approved last night by arcadia retain original date the date for the resurrected junior prom had been set for april 10 prior to houseparty s premature demise this date will be adhered to according to charles m rogers bus chairman the date was chosen because several home athletic contests are sched uled for the following day there has been no published readjust ment of the athletic schedule since the date was set said rogers tickets for the prom will be re duced to 3.30 if the budget will allow this is contrary to a pre cedent of long standing in which the subscription was placed at 4.40 however the committee hopes that this reduction will pave the way toward a perma nently reduced subscription and will reduce excessive profit said rogers also in acordance with the stu speed-up program affects journals brooks peters 34 former ber lin correspondent for the new york times will speak at the junior banquet the class affair will be held at 6:30 p.m march 5 in the masonic temple accord ing to frank h bower e.e 43 chairman of the committee at lehigh peters was a mem ber of the tennis team editor-in chief of the burr fraternity edit or of the epitome managing edit or of the review member of ar cadia vice-president of the inter national relations club member oi the robert blake society mem ber of cyanide secretary of o d.k treasurer of pi delta epsi lon member of mustard and cheese member of phi beta kap pa and member of chi psi fra ternity career started in berlin peters 29 began his newspaper career in berlin quite by accident while studying german at the university of berlin he was in formed of a vacancy in the new york times correspondence staff he applied for the position and was assigned to desk duty some months later he became a full-fledged correspondent and was assigned to cover berlin when the more experienced writers were sent to munich he gave several radio broadcasts from berlin he was recalled to this country when the united states entered the war and was placed on the washington staff of the paper tickets for the banquet are 1.25 they go on sale feb 16 these tickets may be procured from any one of the committee men who are as follows frank h bower e.e chairman glenn w boyer m.e bernard w dee han bus william d hayes 1.e harry a rerold 1.e robert w pugh chem arnold o putnam 1.e and robert p whipple chem class president march 14 is set for military ball to contact classes council of agents chosen board to meet tuesday to study problems cosmopolitan club elects 4 officers scabbard and blade plans dance in grace hall because the topic used for the first round of the intramural de bating contest is no longer con sidered debatable by good ameri cans cole s brembeck coach of intramural debating has announc ed that a meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m thursday in room 208 packard laboratory to select a new topic all members of the 21 teams that entered the first round are expected to attend the meeting to discuss possible topics no team has been eliminated brembeck said even if it were defeated in the first round a picture of all the competitors will be taken for the epitome at the beginning of the meeting the two williams intramural debating prizes of 120 and 80 will be divided equally between the members of the two winning teams the question that was used for the first round and is no longer considered satisfactory is resolv ed that the united states should send an expeditionary force outside the western hemisphere to combat the axis powers any student is still eligible to apply for a place on one of the contest teams in many cases team members who took part in the first round have left school or are unable to continue in the con test these vacancies will be fill ed by the applicants who may see brembeck at his office in christmas saucon hall at least two more rounds will be required to select the contest winners if at this time the win ning teams are still undecided the contending teams will be ask ed to take part in another round group will induct 6 men to hold discussion met e's invited to tea two more called by draft a goal of 50,000 for 1942 has been set by the alumni association as a gift to the university accord ing to robert f henrick acting secretary of the alumni associa tion it is hoped that by such a gift the alumni association can main tain lehigh's finances as well as possible in the face of anticipated rising costs decreased endowment and reduction in enrollment hen rick said to put the program across a council of class agents representing every class has been organized already the number of contrib utors has been raised from 657 in 1939 to 1,441 at present re ceipts which in 1941 had reached 12,258.00 have been topped by a 23,396 total all students in the metallurgical engineering curiculum have been invited to a tea sunday afternoon feb 8 by dr gilbert e doan head of the department of metal lurgical engineering students are to arrive between 4 and 7 p.m at dr doan's home on north main street cars will meet at 3:45 p.m west of the alumni building the military ball will be held march 14 in grace hall according to john h dudley m e 42 cap tain of scabbard and blade soci ety the ball will last from 9 p m to 1 a m the band has not been selected the members of scabbard and blade honorary military society are putting emphasis on a special annual feature to be presented during the intermission dudley predicts that this year's feature will be outstanding the nature of the feature has not been re vealed co-chairmen of the ball com mittee are harold w jones i.e 42 and edward f bodine m.e 42 archie d tifft bus 42 is treasurer of the committee and robert j mcgregor ch.e 42 is in charge of entertainment ah wilderness a light com edy by the american playwright eugene o'neill will be presented march 21 in broughal high school by the dramatic workshop and mustard and cheese dramatic club the action of the play takes place in 1906 in a small town the central characters are the mem bers of the family of nat miller newspaper publisher the plot centers about his 16-year-old richard who reads the daring literature of the time ibsen shaw and wilde a breakup with his girl friend muriel brought about by her strict father causes richard to go to a cheap bar for a taste of wine women and song but nat finally helps his son reform himself the cast as announced by direc tor albert a rights instructor in english will be headed by d wight longley bus 44 as rich ard and tom c mekeel arts 42 as nat other students in the cast will be donald w layton ch e 43 david c osborn ch e 42 robert e pollock bus 43 ed ward m biggs e e 42 dick dunn i e 45 ross vachon bus 43 and lloyd antonides e m 45 important feminine roles will be taken by lois jenkins eleanor lewis georgina wiley joyce hell er and frances zavis if ball to be best attended in years survey indicates a solution to the many problems which lehigh publications now face because of the accelerated program will be sought tuesday at a meeting of the board of pub lications dean wray h congdon chair man of the board who called the meeting for 4 10 p.m in his office said that he expects the meeting to be first of a series the problem he said is too big to solve at one sitting especially since develop ments throughout the semester will constantly change the picture routine affairs at the meeting will include the consideration of officers elected by the brown and white for the coming semester the election of a business manager for the paper and a study of the financial standing of all publica tions a bruce brown editor-in-chief of the epitome and ted scott business manager will attend the meeting to report on the arrange ments that have been made to publish the yearbook before grad uation a study of the financial and staff organization problems that face the publications because of the expected decline in enrollment is being made by kenneth k kost secretary to the board the cosmopolitan club elected four new officers and announced the names of six new house mem bers at a meeting tuesday at the clubhouse 217 packer aye the officers who will preside this semester are president jose ristorcelli i.e 44 from vene zuela vice-president andre le roux arts 44 formerly of bel gium treasurer frank berman met.'44 formerly of germany and secretary toshiaki shintaku c e 44 from hawaii the new house members who will be inducted into the club at a dinner feb 24 are isidoro ben avides e.e 44 edgar frankley e.e 45 henry c green gradu ate student panos georgopulo bus 42 georges potter arts 44 and alfonso fernandez arts special the society will hold a meeting on feb 10 at which there will be an open discussion of present world problems and talks by green and lloyd e antonides e m 45 green will speak on the subject virginia negroes and antonides will talk on one week in a kayak astronomical club student will describe telescope information about the general education plan including enroll ment blanks will be sent to fresh men this month according to frank c becker chairman of the department of philosophy and gen eral education committeeman the general education plan is purely optional and only a limited number of freshmen will be per mitted to enroll at present there are over 75 sophomores and up perclassmen following the pro gram students who take the course choose faculty members with whom they are acquainted to act as their advisers the student does outside reading recommend ed by his adviser and holds in formal discussions about his in tellectual problems receive no credits the student receives no credits for the course and he may drop it at any time there are no reg ular classes no fixed amount of work no grades and no examina tions the student is permitted to read on subjects in which he is interested if a student wishes to enroll in the course it is advised that he discuss the matter with the dean of undergraduates the dean of his curriculum or any member of the advisory council for general edu cation if a student's application for en rollment is accepted he is assign ed as an advisee to a faculty mem ber however he may change his adviser if there is one who could aid him better in his special field scientific tests which show a student's weak and strong points are available a faculty member will help him interpret the results chairman is diamond member of the advisory council for general education are dr her bert m diamond chairman dr claude g beardslee frank c becker allison butts dr earl l crum dr gilbert e doan dr lawrence h gipson dr thomas h hazlehurst and dr percy hughes other members of the committee and dr harvey a neville dr benjamin l miller dr philip m palmer dr clarence a shook dr robert m smith bradley stough ton hale sutherland dr francis j trembley dr lawrence whit comb and raymond h white o the engagement of ensign waldso rodman turner 40 to miss barbara jane ford has been announced by miss ford's parents the wedding will take place on feb 7 in aurora hi the interfraternity ball will be bigger this year than it has been for several years according to a survey taken among the frater nities more couples are expected to dance to the music of harry james and will bradley this year than would have done so last year the survey shows that more than 475 fraternity men will at tend last year there were 435 fifteen fraternities indicated an increase in attendance while only nine had fewer members planning to come four fraternities will have attendances equal to last year's the ball will bring at least a temporary boom to nearby hotels hotel bethlehem reports that its accommodations for the weekend long have been filled in allen town hotel traylor and hotel americus have reservations for 100 dates 60 tickets for resale although 778 tickets have been issued according to ralph moss bus 42 president of the if council only about 60 tickets have been turned back to the ar cadia office in drown hall not more than 20 of the tickets return ed have been resold these are practically the same as last year's figures interest is particularly great this year when spring house party was temporarily suspended many students felt this would be their last opportunity to dance to the music of a name band at le high the addition of will brad ley and his band to acceptable harry james has added greatly to the interest in this popular an nual activity the glass giant of palomar will be the subject of a talk by edward l walter ch e 43 at a meeting of the e w brown astronomical society at 7 o'clock tonight in room 208 pachard lab oratory the glass giant is a large 200-inch reflecting telescope soon to be erected at palomar californ ia walter will describe how the telescope was made what work was done on it and how it is to be set up and operated two more lehigh undergraduates packed their bags this week and took one last look at the south mountain campus preparing to enter the u s army via the selective service act are john a hunt arts 42 left and j robert lees i e 44 right hunt is a member of lambda chi alpha lees is a sigma nu both men will be inducted within a month vol xlix no 28 in the army soon bethlehem pa friday february 6 1942 price — five cents brooks peters will speak at junior dinner cyanide plans to organize 24 late frosh arcadia starts work on houseparty plans after faculty revokes earlier decision expect to hold junior prom on april 10 brown and white former berlin news man to give experiences at dinner march 5 orientation meeting rules to be set up soon to publish lists tickets will be 1.25 coming up . . . tomorrow 7 p m — theta kappa phi ban quet saucon valley country club 8 p m — varsity wrestling cor nell away 8:30 p m — varsity basketball rutgers home sunday z p m — bach choir rehearsal chapel 3:30 p m — canterbury club drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first